Hi,
2 weeks aog, I had to give my trusty Brother Laserprinter to a customer who was in the need of having a replacement printer immediately. Now it seems I can't get the printer back because the customer is way too satisfied with what was intended to be a short-term workaround and "forces" me to sell it (price is OK for me, so no problem here...).
In short - I will have to get myself a new printer.
Afetr I sold a couple of color laserprinters during last year and the overall response was quite positive regarding quality and reliability I figured that I could check if that would be an option for me. Since I know that support is somehow limited for our operating system of choice, I wanted to know whether someone already HAS experience with color laserprinters on eCS.
Before I present the possible candidates to you, let me mention the fact that I have a network print server box which is able to attach USB and parallel models. This means that I can use USB attached printers via LPR without having to worry a lot. Only the printer driver causes me issue, not the actual connectivity.
That said, here's my preliminary selection:
- Brother (my favorite laser printer brand) model HL-3040CN
- Samsung CLP 310
- Epson C1100N
- HP CP1515
With brother, they didn't mention the printer lanuage anywhere. I will have to check on this again...
Samsung is using a proprietary language that -I think- is even not well supported with CUPS.
Epson states their model is using "ESC/Page S". I know the Epson ESC is supported, but can't tell for this particular flavor. HP is the company I would really like to not buy something from, yet if it is the only possible way to go... sigh. They say it supports "HP PostScript Level 3 Emulation"... whatever that means, it doesn't sound to me like simple, standard "PostScript".

Which one is known to work "natively"? Which one works "best" when having CUPS installed?
Any suggestion what works, what not, or other models that come to mind?
Cheers, TIA,
Thomas